What is Israel's real objective?
Consider:
- Just last month the Israeli Northern Command conducted a massive exercise to practice war with Hizbullah.
Coincidence?
- Israeli leaders bluntly state that we know exactly what we hit, when challenged on whether they'd destroyed Hezbollah's Beirut HQ or a Mosque under construction as claimed by Hezbollah.
Israel's intelligence capabilities are of course very well known and respected. So isn't it reasonable to assume that Israel knew about those same missles being brought down into Southern Lebanon well before Hezbollah ever fired a single one of them?
Surely Israel (and the Bush administration) must have known about the missles when Syria, who they both claim controls Hesbollah, was being rhetorically forced out of Lebanon late last year.
And how is it that Christian neighborhoods in Beirut and Christian areas in Northern Lebanon have been bombed by Israel if this war is about the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah terrorists in the South?
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Everybody knew that the missiles were there before Hezbollah fired a single one of them. A UN resolution said that arms were coming in to Hezbollah.
Mistakes do happen during battle. Intelligence can be wrong as to what is where. I hate that innocent civilians have died, but don't just blame Israel for what is happening. There are at least four or five other parties that can take at least peripherial blame.
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The blog Rigorous Intuition is conspiratorial, so may not be everyone's cup of tea. But it provides a possible answer to the question "What is Israel's real objective?"
The war may really be about water.
Brent, I'm not letting anyone off the hook. I've focused mostly on Israel because our government and our media have refused to.
The water issue is extremely compelling. Jeff does an excellent job on his Rigorous Intuition blog of tying it back over the decades to past Israeli desires to control Southern Lebanon.
'10 buildings for every rocket'
Monday 24 July 2006
Southern Beirut has been hit by repeated Israeli air strikes
The Israeli air force has been ordered to hit 10 buildings in south Beirut - where Hezbollah has its headquarters - for every rocket the group fires at the Israeli port of Haifa.
"Army chief of staff Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-storey buildings in the Dahaya district (of Beirut) in response to every rocket fired on Haifa," a senior air force officer told army radio on Monday.
Hezbollah rockets killed two people in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday.
Seventeen Israelis have died in rocket attacks since the beginning of the conflict on July 12.
More than 2,200 Hezbollah rockets had hit northern Israel by Sunday. They have struck as far as Afula, 50km south of the border.
Large areas of predominantly Shia Muslim southern Beirut have been destroyed by Israeli raids. On Wednesday Israeli aircraft dropped 23 tons of explosives on the site of an alleged Hezbollah bunker in the south of the capital.
More than 1,100 Hezbollah
rockets have hit northern Israel
Jan Egeland, the United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator, on Sunday accused Israel of violating humanitarian law as he toured the destroyed suburbs of south Beirut.
"This is destruction of block after block of mainly residential areas. I would say it seems to be an excessive use of force in an area with so many citizens," he said.
Israel's offensive in Lebanon has claimed at least 365 lives, mostly civilians.
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